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Geometry
GEOMETRY. During the last two millennia BCE, the period that produced most religious texts, geometry (lit., &#x0022;earth measurement,&#x0022; from Greek gaia, ge, &#x0022;the earth,&#x0022; ...
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The Foundations of Geometry: from Thales to Euclid
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Ancient Greek mathematicians systematized their knowledge about geometry, with the compendium by Euclid providing definitions, axioms, theor...
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Seeking the Geometry of the Universe
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The German mathematician Georg Friedrich Riemann died shortly before his fortieth birthday and long before the importance of his work was truly recognized...
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Geometry
Geometry is the branch of mathematics that deals with measurements and properties of points, lines, and angles. Geometry is one of the oldest branches of mathematics, used by the Egyptians an...
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Geometry
Ancient people used techniques of measurement to build ships, houses and temples and developed methods of calculating financial transactions. For most of the civilizations of the ancient worl...
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Geometry
Until 1800, mathematics was divided into two great branches: geometry and arithmetic. Both were commonly regarded as the more obviously secure repositories of human knowledge. At this stage, ...
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Rita Dove Biographies (4)

Award-winning writer Rita Dove boasts an impressive list of achievements. She is the creator of over ten books of poetry and fiction, including Thomas and Beulah which won the Pulitzer Prize when Dove...
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Rita Frances Dove (born 1952) is a poet, writer, and educator. In 1993, she became the youngest to hold the title of poet laureate of the United States Library of Congress.In announcing Rita Frances D...
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Although her literary achievements are impressive, the mark that Rita Dove's literary career will reach is for the future to determine. Her poems began to appear in print as early as 1974, but until 1...
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Biography EssayRita Dove's poems began to appear in print as early as 1974, but until 1987, the year she won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Thomas and Beulah (1986), her name was mentioned only occ...
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